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b. 1978 -

Ken Okiishi - The New York-based artist adopts a paintballing technique, in which layers of paint generate abstract paintings

Ken Okiishi (b. 1978, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2013); Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (2013); Mathew, Berlin (2012); Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (2012); Alex Zachary, New York (2010); and Mehringdamm 72, Berlin (2010). Recent group exhibitions include: Artists Space, New York (2013); Arnolfini, Bristol (2013); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2013); Kunsthalle Bern (2012); White Columns, New York (2012).

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    • KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B. 1978), GESTURE/DATA 2013
      Dec. 12, 2024

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B. 1978), GESTURE/DATA 2013

      Est: £500 - £700

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B. 1978)GESTURE/DATA 2013Chroma key video paint on large format display led, barco crt blue screen video by HD camera transfer OR Oil on flatscreen monitor with video, colour, sound105 x 61cm (41¼ x 24 in.)Provenance:Matthew Gallery, Lieske/Kersten Gbr., BerlinAcquired from the above in 2014Based in New York, Ken Okiishi is celebrated for his avant-garde combination of media, particularly painting and film. Okiishi is represented by Pilar Corrias; he has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Frieze Art Fair, and MoMA. Though the artist embraces video footage as readily as acrylic pigment, his interdisciplinary work is united by a forward-looking impulse, forever interrogating the impact of technology on visual perception. The gesture/data series marked Okiishi's first solo exhibition in London: six television screens hang from the walls, playing jittery VHS footage or, indeed, recordings of blue error screens. The present example falls into the latter camp, as chroma key paint (used for green-screen compositing) is superimposed onto the azure empyrean. Okiishi's mark-making recalls Joan Mitchell - an avowed inspiration - in its eloquent intensity. The paint is daubed onto the surface like a heat map, as if tracking movements across a touch screen. By implying connections between abstract expressionism and modern-day technological manipulation, Okiishi inaugurates a new form of art, one suited to our digital age.

      Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
    • KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B. 1978), GESTURE/DATA 2013
      Sep. 25, 2024

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B. 1978), GESTURE/DATA 2013

      Est: £1,500 - £2,000

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B. 1978)GESTURE/DATA 2013Chroma key video paint on large format display led, barco crt blue screen video by HD camera transfer OR Oil on flatscreen monitor with video, colour, sound105 x 61cm (41¼ x 24 in.)Provenance:Matthew Gallery, Lieske/Kersten Gbr., BerlinAcquired from the above in 2014Based in New York, Ken Okiishi is celebrated for his avant-garde combination of media, particularly painting and film. Okiishi is represented by Pilar Corrias; he has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Frieze Art Fair, and MoMA. Though the artist embraces video footage as readily as acrylic pigment, his interdisciplinary work is united by a forward-looking impulse, forever interrogating the impact of technology on visual perception. The gesture/data series marked Okiishi's first solo exhibition in London: six television screens hang from the walls, playing jittery VHS footage or, indeed, recordings of blue error screens. The present example falls into the latter camp, as chroma key paint (used for green-screen compositing) is superimposed onto the azure empyrean. Okiishi's mark-making recalls Joan Mitchell - an avowed inspiration - in its eloquent intensity. The paint is daubed onto the surface like a heat map, as if tracking movements across a touch screen. By implying connections between abstract expressionism and modern-day technological manipulation, Okiishi inaugurates a new form of art, one suited to our digital age.

      Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
    • KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978)
      Feb. 22, 2023

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978)

      Est: £250 - £350

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978) gesture/date (micro thumbnail scale, boxed) 2014 mixed media, Chroma Key video paint on screen, embedded in box, HD transferred to MP4 (color, silent) signed and numbered from the edition of 100 in pencil overall 22.1 x 16.5 x 5.5cm

      Chiswick Auctions
    • KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978)
      Oct. 05, 2022

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978)

      Est: £400 - £600

      KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978) KEN OKIISHI (AMERICAN B.1978) gesture/date (micro thumbnail scale, boxed) 2014 mixed media, Chroma Key video paint on screen, embedded in box, HD transferred to MP4 (color, silent) signed and numbered from the edition of 100 in pencil overall 22.1 x 16.5 x 5.5cm

      Chiswick Auctions
    • KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) - gesture/data
      Oct. 27, 2020

      KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) - gesture/data

      Est: £4,000 - £6,000

      KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) gesture/data oil on MD40B 40\" large format display LED, VHS transferred to .mov transferred to mp4 36 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. (92.3 x 54 x 9cm.) Executed in 2013 ",

      Christie's
    • KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) - Gesture/ Data
      Jul. 28, 2020

      KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) - Gesture/ Data

      Est: £4,000 - £6,000

      KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) Gesture/ Dataoil on flat screen television, HD transferred to MP4 (colour, sound) 361⁄8 x 211⁄4 x 5in. (92 x 54 x 13cm.) Executed in 2014

      Christie's
    • KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) | Gesture/data, 2014
      Sep. 28, 2018

      KEN OKIISHI (B. 1978) | Gesture/data, 2014

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      flat-screen television, oil paint and VHS transferred to .mp4

      Sotheby's
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